BREWSTER'S LAW


Meaning of BREWSTER'S LAW in English

Optics.

the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.

[ named after Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish physicist ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .